Spear of Ares

But as the sun slips, abandoning us to a life of perpetual twilight à la The Road, I take solace in the fact that the Schwanz of Ares, in our very own Volkspark Schöneberg, will retain its warm luminosity.

When I arrived in Berlin last fall, all but this was taupe-on-gray, and the punchline had not yet begun to blossom.